Category Archives: Belgium

Ferdinand-Gobert Count of Aspremont-Lynden 1645-1708

Lynden was born in the noble family Aspremont-Lynden as the son of Count Ferdinand of Aspremont-Lynden (1611–1665) and his wife, Landgravine Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1621–1662). He grew up at the Aspremont-Lynden Castle, in the county of Rekem (Reckheim), a small County in present-day Belgium, belonging to the Holy Roman Empire. Lynden became an officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and its Habsburg emperor in Vienna.

Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £18.00

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Hendrik Conscience 1812-1883

Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.

Artist/Engraver
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £16.00

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Thomas Philip de Alsatia 1679-1759

Thomas Philip Wallrad de Hénin-Liétard d’Alsace named Cardinal d’Alsace (Brussels, 12 November 1679 – 5 January 1759), was a Cardinal and Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium. He participated in four conclaves; during the conclave of 1758, in which he did not participate, he was Cardinal Protopriest.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Hendrik Conscience 1812-1883

Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.

Artist/Engraver
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £16.00

Ref:3605

Balthasar Caymox 1561-1635

Nuremberg art dealer, publisher of books and prints, and printer. Born in Bersse in Flanders, became a citizen of Nuremberg in 1590. His shop was taken over by Paul Fürst (q.v.) in 1632
Size 10.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Margaret of Austria Duchess of Savoy 1480-1530

Archduchess Margaret of Austria was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands.
Size 18 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

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Charles Thomas de Lorraine 1670-1704 prince de Vaudémont,

Charles Thomas was the only son of Charles Henri of Lorraine, prince of Vaudémont and Commerce and Anne Élisabeth de Lorraine, and a grandson of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. His father used the style of prince de Vaudémont, although he held no corresponding territory, until 1708 when he received the allodial territory of Commerce from Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. Henceforth, the father reigned there as the Prince of Commerce, while Charles Thomas was styled the prince of Vaudémont.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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